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Hydraulic fracturing to squeeze oil and gas from rock buried deep underground is either a financial windfall for landowners and communities or an environmental Pandora's box — depending on whom you ask. Until now, eastern Virginia hasn't been faced with the prospect of modern horizontal fracking, unlike communities in such states as North Dakota, Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania, so residents haven't had to choose sides. But now an energy company has leased mineral rights to at least 84,000 acres in the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck for possible oil and gas drilling, and the industry is pushing the U.S. Forest Service to allow controversial horizontal fracking in...

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Hydraulic fracturing to squeeze oil and gas from rock buried deep underground is either a financial windfall for landowners and communities or an environmental Pandora's box — depending on whom you ask.
Until now, eastern Virginia hasn't been faced...

ISLE OF WIGHT – The United States' historically high cotton prices of 2011 are history.
But the country's cotton industry is starting to deal with an international trade problem created by the volatile market: cotton contract forfeitures, said Isle of...

Two years ago, in September 2010, the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute treated its first patient for prostate cancer. After years of planning and seed money from local, state and federal sources, HUPTI, a $225 million project — the brainchild...

HU's Proton Therapy Institute, the 8th facility in the U.S. and the largest such facility in the world, has signed an agreement to serve patients from the Middle East and North Africa. By the same agreement it is providing training to physicians in...

The alarm sounded with two sneezy children in
California in April. Just five months later, the never-before-seen
swine flu has become the world's dominant strain of influenza, and
it's putting a shockingly younger face on flu.
So get ready. With...

ISLAMABAD Militant Pakistani Sunni groups that trained alongside al-Qaida, fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan and launched terrorist attacks in India have pledged their support to Saudi Arabia, a key source of their funding, amid growing pressure on...

A Saudi-led coalition is targeting Shiite rebels and their allies in Yemen in a campaign of airstrikes that began last week. Here's a look at the Sunni Arab countries involved in the fighting so far, as well as others offering material support or...

Saudi Arabia has undertaken several initiatives to attract foreign capital outside of its oil and gas sector, the deputy governor of the kingdom's investment authority said Monday. "There is a strong effort by the government to diversify this...

Egypt and Saudi Arabia are cooperating militarily to thwart a power grab in Yemen by Shiite rebels, but the agreement on how to deal with the region's complex and intertwined conflicts may stop there. The two countries' diverging interests were evident at...

SANAA, Yemen ��A Saudi-led coalition intensified airstrikes against Houthi rebel military targets in Yemen Sunday. The Shiite Muslim rebels have taken control of large parts of the impoverished country and are seen as being backed by Iran,...

Arab League member nations formally announced on Sunday an agreement to form a joint military force. While details of how such a force would actually operate remain thin, the agreement is a telling sign of a new determination among Saudi Arabia, Egypt and...

Sweden's foreign minister is hardly the first diplomat to raise concerns about Saudi Arabia's human rights record, but when she used the word "dictatorship" in a speech last month she crossed a red line for the kingdom at a time of intense...

Alarmed by the potential for civil war in Yemen, Arab leaders agreed Sunday to the creation of a joint military force that would attempt to bring some stability to the region and serve as a counterweight to the influence of Iran.The heads of the Arab...

The meltdown in Yemen is pushing the Middle East dangerously closer toward the wider regional conflagration many long have feared would arise from the chaos unleashed by the Arab Spring revolts.
What began as a peaceful struggle to unseat a Tunisian...

Yemen's embattled president on Saturday called Shiite rebels who forced him to flee the country "puppets of Iran," directly blaming the Islamic Republic for the chaos there and demanding airstrikes against rebel positions continue until they...

As airstrikes in Yemen intensified on their second day Friday, Egypt and Saudi Arabia were considering an intervention on the ground, aimed at giving the president a secure foothold to return to the country, while backing Sunni tribesmen to fight...

SANAA, Yemen With Saudi Arabia's bombing campaign in its third day, the United Nations on Saturday withdrew its remaining personnel from Yemen's capital, dashing whatever hope remained that the fighting would stop and U.N.-sponsored peace talks would...

Arab League member states have agreed in principle to form a joint inter-Arab military peacekeeping force. While details of how such a force would actually operate remain thin, the agreement is a telling sign of a new determination among Saudi Arabia,...

ISLAMABAD Prospects that Pakistan would join the Saudi-led air campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen appeared to be evaporating Friday amid widespread concern that taking sides in what's perceived as a power struggle between Sunni Muslim Saudi...

SANAA, Yemen After two days of Saudi airstrikes and a barrage of anti-aircraft fire by Houthi rebels, Yemen's former president reappeared Friday in Sanaa to call for a cease-fire and a return to United Nations negotiations. Former President Ali...